Rise of the Dark Witch

After three days of separation, the pharmacists gathered together again.

Among the hundreds of pharmacists, some stood expressionless, some looked anxious, and some bit their lips in despair.

The tree spirit Glock standing at the front looked at the people below with a smile.

"Suzy...White...Aaron..."

"Finn...Megan...Webber..."

As Dryad Glock read out names one by one, everyone whose name was read breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they don't want to help the tree refine medicine, and they don't want to be imprisoned and live as tools for refining medicine, it is still better than being tortured by the tree and living in pain that is worse than death for the rest of their lives.

After Dryad Glock finished reading the twenty-sixth name, the moment it stopped, the faces of everyone else turned pale.

This means they all failed!

And once they fail, they will be greeted by the terrifying tree torture!

When they thought of the plight of those who were tortured by trees, and when they thought that they would become one of them, their faces turned pale.

"Impossible! I have refined the intermediate potion? How could I be unqualified?"

"Please give me another chance. My talent is no less than those of the inner hospital pharmacists. I am only inferior to them because my family is poor and I do not have access to good resources and teachers. I will definitely be able to surpass those so-called geniuses in the future. of!"

"What kind of tree punishment? I won't accept that horrible punishment!"

"It's better to die than to be tortured!"

Several unqualified people showed determination and banged their heads against the wall.

But just when their heads were about to touch the wall, they suddenly stopped.

It's definitely not that they are afraid of death.

What is death compared to tree torture?

Instead, the symbiotic vines on their bodies control their bodies and prevent them from dying.

People parasitized by symbiotic vines cannot even die without the permission of the tree spirit.

After the tree spirit Glock glanced at the losers with cold eyes, his eyes fell on Roja and other people who passed the examination.

"Congratulations to everyone who successfully passed the assessment and became a member of our medicine cage."

"As I said before, in our medicine cage, except that you cannot move freely, your life is definitely much more comfortable than you imagined."

"Now, the first benefit I give you is..."

Dryad Glock's eyes fell on the losers, "You can choose one of the losers to be your assistant."

"What?"

"real?"

Dryad Glock's words made everyone present, whether they failed or passed, show expressions of surprise.

Those losers originally thought that they were hopeless and would have to live in the terror of tree torture for the rest of their lives, but they didn't expect that there would be another chance?

As long as you become an assistant, you can escape the threat of tree torture.

But there are only more than twenty qualified pharmacists, and there are nearly a hundred losers!

There are more monks than meat. Among the more than a hundred losers, only about 20 people were able to stay as assistants in the end.

"Me! Me! Choose me!"

"Uncle Wei, do you still remember? We are classmates studying under the guidance of the same teacher."

"White, I actually like you very much. I rejected you just because I was worried about affecting your pharmacy studies. I'm also in pain inside. I can't fall asleep without saying your name every night."

"Suzy, it's so nice, I thought we were going to separate."

The whole room suddenly became a mess.

It's good to have feelings, hold each other and cry happily.

They seemed to have a good relationship in the past, but in fact they were just superficial brothers.

Some do not want to accept the tree punishment and plead hard.

Among the many pharmacists, two stood out.

One of them, Tina Cyril!

Who would have thought that this genius of the inner court, this eldest lady from the Duke Cyril family, this elegant and beautiful flower of the high mountains who is the dream lover of countless men, would actually become a member of the losing group?

Many qualified pharmacists drooled at Tina's beautiful face.

They didn't even deserve to say a few words to Tina before, but now maybe they have a chance to get the stunning beauty Tina?

Can you become Tina's master?

Can you do whatever you want to Tina?

However, after they saw a handsome man walking towards Tina, they suppressed their desires and backed down.

The person approaching Tina was none other than Aaron from the Earl of Kailan family, one of the five genius pharmacists in the inner courtyard, who had competed with Tina in the Young Lions Academy!

Under everyone's attention, Aaron walked towards Tina step by step with a joking smile on his face.

When he came to Tina, Aaron laughed obscenely while looking at various parts of Tina's body with lewd eyes.

"I thought that as the son of Earl Kelan, I, Aaron, was expected to become a potion master in the future and a genius who would inherit the title of Earl, but I was caught by the tree spirit in this ghost place. I will live as a medicine refining tool for the rest of my life."

"Do you know how angry I am?"

"Do you know how sad I am?"

"I never thought that in this desperate and dark situation, something so happy could happen."

"Right, my Miss Tina?"

Aaron reached out and touched Tina's fair face.

"Huh!" Tina snorted and turned away from Aaron's hand.

Aaron, who felt empty, not only did not feel angry, but laughed.

Tina's resistance was what he wanted. If Tina simply accepted her fate and accepted the outcome with despair, he would find it boring.

"Dear Miss Tina, you don't seem to understand the current situation?"

"As a member of the losing group, if you cannot become an assistant to one of us here, then you will have to endure the horrific tree torture and live in pain for the rest of your life."

"Are you thinking that you can become someone else's assistant besides me?"

As he spoke, Aaron looked around, and everyone who touched his sight quickly lowered their heads.

"If I don't choose you, I can guarantee that no one here will dare to choose you!" Aaron sneered.

No one present made a rebuttal.

Strong people will have privileges no matter where they are.

When he was in the Young Lions Academy, Aaron was the pharmacist in the inner courtyard and his father was an earl. Except for a few people, everyone else had to give him face.

Got here.

In this medicine cage built by the dryad, the differences in status are smoothed out.

No matter whether he is a duke or an earl outside, here he is just a medicine refining tool for the tree spirit, and everything depends on his ability.

However, even if his identity is put aside, Aaron's pharmacy level and talent are still the strongest among them!

The strong will always have some privileges, and I believe that there will be no exception in the tree spirit's medicine cage.

Tina is beautiful, but is it worth offending Aaron for a beauty?

You can still run around outside. The land of the Six Kingdoms is so big, where can’t you go? The worst case scenario is to go overseas to other countries.

But you can’t even run away here!

Tina obviously knew this, and if she offended Aaron, her life would never be easy in the future.

Maybe Aaron would really leave her to be tortured by the tree in a fit of rage?

Even if Aaron really chooses her as his assistant, you don't need to think about how Aaron will torture her next if she doesn't please Aaron.

Thinking of this, Tina, who had always been strong, had mist in her eyes.

I think a few days ago she was a high-ranking granddaughter of a duke, being surrounded by a bunch of people and complimenting her.

It has only been a few days, but she has become the most rubbish existence among the pharmacists in their class. She needs to please those she originally despised and hated in order to live.

Seeing Tina's complex expressions of sadness, pain, despair, etc., Aaron was very happy, and the haze in his heart caused by being caught by the tree spirit dissipated a lot.

He moved his head towards Tina.

Facing Aaron who was approaching her, Tina showed an extremely disgusted and uncomfortable expression on her face. Her hands shook violently, and she obviously wanted to slap Aaron on the face, but she held back.

"suck--"

Aaron leaned his face in front of Tina and took a deep breath. The girl's fragrance fascinated him.

"suck--"

"suck--"

Aaron kept breathing around Tina, closing his eyes and smiling intoxicatedly.

Aaron's wretched and obscene appearance made it impossible to imagine that he was the same person as the calm, heroic, polite and aristocratic young man who was the dream lover of countless girls in the Young Lions Academy.

Seeing Tina who couldn't bear it anymore, her body was shaking and almost crying, Aaron said in Tina's ear in a voice that everyone could hear: "Hey, come on, call me master."

Although Tina still didn't speak in the end, Aaron was already very satisfied. He was now full of fantasies about how to insult Tina in the future.

Dryad Glock doesn't care about human drama.

"The next step is to officially start selecting assistants, starting with the person with the best performance..."

Before Dryad Glock had finished speaking, Aaron was already staring straight at Tina, and his saliva was almost drooling.

"Vic Cyril, which assistant do you choose?" Dryad Glock's eyes fell on Roja.

"What?"

"Isn't it Aaron?"

"Vic improved the ox blood potion? I know he is very talented in the beast style, but what the tree spirit needs is only the herbal style potion!"

"Can you surpass Aaron and become number one? How is it possible?"

People whispered in shock.

The most shocked among them was Aaron.

Under everyone's shocked gaze, Roja's eyes fell on Tina, "Let her be my assistant, Tina Cyril."

"real?"

Tina, who had lowered her head and accepted the cruel fate in despair, suddenly raised her head and looked at Roya with joy after hearing Roja's words. She was so happy that she almost danced on the spot.

"you dare!"

Aaron shouted angrily and stared at Roja, as if he wanted to eat Roja alive.

"Why don't I dare?" Roja smiled silently, "Master Aaron, this is not the outside. Your identity as the son of an earl cannot scare me. You were so arrogant towards Tina, the grandson of a duke, I thought you already understood. This makes sense.”

Aaron stared at Roja with a twisted expression.

Although he thought it was impossible, Roja was better at pharmacy than him, so he could barely accept it.

But Roja actually stole his Tina?

His only pleasure in this dark and cruel cage?

"How can he be ranked above me?"

Because he was too angry and unbelievable, Aaron forgot his fear for a moment and questioned the tree spirit Glock.

"I have refined one bottle of high-level potion and three bottles of intermediate potion in the past three days!"

Aaron is not a senior pharmacist yet, so the success rate of refining high-level potions is not high every time, and it consumes a lot of energy.

In the past, every time he refined a high-level potion, he had to prepare it several days in advance. After refining it, he would feel weak and mentally exhausted for a long time, and he would need to rest for several days to recover.

But this time, under heavy pressure, he actually made a breakthrough. He felt that he had already half-stepped into the realm of senior pharmacist. It would only take another one or two months to slowly consolidate, and he would be Can become a real senior pharmacist.

That's why he was able to refine one bottle of high-level potion and three bottles of intermediate potion in three days.

He believed that after making a breakthrough, his level of pharmacy would definitely stand out among the younger generation, and Tina, who was his equal before, would be outclassed by him.

As a result, someone told him that he lost?

He knew that Roja had improved the primary potion Ox Blood Potion. Being able to improve the primary potion and being able to refine the high-grade potion were completely different things.

"I don't believe he can beat me!" Aaron roared with a twisted face.

Regarding Aaron's rudeness, maybe it was because Aaron's level of pharmacy was relatively high, but Dryad Glock was not angry at all.

"Your name is Aaron, right? You are very powerful and very talented. There is a high probability that you can become a potion master in the future, but it is a pity..." Dryad Glock's hot eyes fell on Roja, "He has three days Five bottles of advanced healing potion were refined there."

silence!

Everyone was stunned by what the tree spirit Glock said.

The refining of each bottle of high-level potion consumes a lot of time and energy.

The entire refining process for a bottle of advanced healing potion takes at least eight hours.

Five bottles of advanced healing potion, even if the success rate is 100%, will take forty hours to refine.

However, the dryad gave them only three days, a total of only forty-eight hours!

In other words, Roya only rested for eight hours during the three days?

And it requires 100% refining success before you have eight hours of rest time. If you fail once in the process, you won't even have rest time.

Is this possible?

It would be impossible for even the most powerful senior pharmacist to refine five bottles of advanced healing potion in three days, right?

Everyone was stunned by what the tree spirit Glock said. They wanted to shout that it was impossible and loudly asked the other party if they had colluded.

The question is why did the dryad collude with Roya?

Is there any benefit to working with Roya to deceive them?

So no matter how reluctant he is, he has to admit that Roja has refined five bottles of advanced healing potions and his pharmacy skills are even better than Aaron's!

Everyone was silent.

Even Aaron could only accept this fact with hatred.

"Next, Aaron Kellan, choose your assistant..."

Not long after, everyone selected their assistants.

The remaining losers who no one wanted stood in despair. Some cried loudly, some pleaded desperately, and some were scared to death.

But no matter what they do, Dryad Glock will show no mercy to these losers.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! ——

One after another, vines stretched out from the surrounding walls. Amidst the blood-curdling screams, the pharmacists were tied up, dragged away, and pulled down for tree torture.

Most of the people in the room suddenly disappeared.

The room that originally seemed a bit crowded with more than a hundred people standing suddenly became a lot emptier.

Dryad Glock looked at the remaining people with a smile, "I personally respect you pharmacists very much, but human beings are the enemies of our tree spirits after all. My people want to kill you. After my hard plea, Only then will they be willing to let go.”

"You won't die, but you will inevitably suffer physical pain."

"Here, you need to receive one hundred lashes every ten days. Only by becoming a potion master can you be completely pardoned."

"Before becoming a potion master, every time you refine a bottle of intermediate potion, you can be exempted from one lash penalty. Every time you refine a bottle of high-level potion, you can be exempted from ten lashes. By refining potions, you can be exempted from 50 lashes at most."

"Next, according to the ranking based on contribution, the first place can be exempted from an additional fifty lashes, and the second place can be exempted from an additional forty lashes..."

"The fifth place will be exempted from ten lashes."

Looking at the trembling people, Dryad Glock comforted them: "Don't worry, the whips we use for whipping are specially made. They will only cause pain and will not hurt anyone."

"Then now..."

Dryad Glock withdrew his wave and said, "Except for the first place winner, Vic himself, everyone else will receive a hundred lashes each!"

"Wait a minute!" Aaron shouted, "Am I not second? Am I exempt from the caning penalty?"

"I may not have made it clear enough and you may have misunderstood. The ranking I am talking about is not the ranking among you, but the ranking of all the pharmacists in our entire medicine cage!"

"You don't think there are only about twenty of you pharmacists in the medicine cage, right?"

"I remember your name was Aaron?"

"You are very talented and your pharmacy skills are quite good."

"But in our medicine cage, even if we eliminate seven potion masters, among the remaining pharmacists, your level will not be among the top twenty."

"If you don't want to be whipped, just work hard in the next few days."

"As for now?"

Dryad Glock waved his hand, "The whipping begins!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! ——

Vine after vine waved in the room, lashing towards the pharmacist except Roja.

Who among those who can become a pharmacist is not a kid from a rich family? Who hasn’t been pampered since childhood? When have you ever endured this kind of pain?

Suddenly, the room was filled with the screams of ghosts and wolves.

Snapped! Snapped! Snapped! ——

In his spare time, Roja also had time to count the number of whips each person received.

Dryad Glock is very trustworthy, saying that a hundred lashes means a hundred lashes, no more than one lash, and no less than one lash.

But there is one exception.

Roja discovered that when the whip turned into a vine whipped someone, it was particularly hard and fast. In the time it took others to be whipped a hundred times, that person was whipped a full hundred and twenty times.

Seeing Aaron crying and peeing under the whip, who was obviously more embarrassed than the others, Roja knew that this was the tree spirit Glock taking revenge on Aaron.

To retaliate against Aaron for being rude just now.

After the whipping, everyone except Roya lay on the ground.

Although their bodies were not injured at all, the severe pain had made them so mentally exhausted that they no longer wanted to move a finger.

They couldn't help but think——

Just the caning once every ten days was so painful.

How painful will it be for those who have to live under the torture of trees twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and for the next tens or hundreds of years?

Just thinking about it made their bodies tremble with fear.

“Congratulations to all the pharmacists who have officially become a member of our medicine cage.”

"Next, I hope you can refine potions well and contribute well to us dryads. As long as you do well, we will never treat you badly."

"And if you disappoint us, fail to refine enough potions, or do something that hurts the friendship between us tree spirits and humans..."

Dryad Glock shook his hand and his tone became extremely cold, "We still have punishments that are more terrifying than tree punishment."

The cold tone of Dryad Glock blew in everyone's heart like a cold wind from the far north. Everyone trembled and nodded frantically like a chicken pecking at rice.